“The East Village is the charged, nostalgic backdrop for all of these contemporary queer stories because it was the origin point from which queer life jumped from the fringes into mainstream North American culture.”
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social"'Waiting on a Friend' is a horror story where all the monsters are real – but so are the heroes."
Hugh Ryan reviews Natalie Adler’s "Waiting on a Friend": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/waiting-friend-natalie-adler-east-village-aids-crisis
